Urban Abstractions

Art & Design

Thanks to a slew of talented street artists, like JR and Roa, for whom the urban landscape is a personal canvas, city dwellers can engage with impressive, large-scale art without stepping foot in a museum. But cities are also replete with unintended art—elements on store fronts, construction sites and subway walls; compositions of color and geometry, line and texture that easily resemble jewel-like paintings.